Elon Musk’s ‘Freedom from Government’ Battle Cry – Is Total Hypocrisy

Most unfortunately, people calling for the restoration of sanity and normality in the midst of the titanically stupid China Virus FREAK OUT!!! – are in shorter supply than bathroom tissue.

So when anyone arises from the passivity pit sounding the alarm that The Eternal Shutdown is a recipe for national apocalypse – many of us grab for him or her like the last life preserver off of the Titanic.

“Subsidies for electric vehicles are widespread, varied, and are funded by federal, state, and city governments.

“They include subsidies for consumer purchases of EVs, subsidies for producers of EVs, subsidies for EV infrastructure, and other various side benefits to EV owners.”

As with most government subsidy stupidities, the whimsies upon which governments waste our money – aren’t even new:

“In the late 1890s, at the dawn of the automobile era, steam, gasoline, and electric cars all competed to become the dominant automotive technology. By the early 1900s, the battle was over, and internal combustion was poised to become the prime mover of the twentieth century.”

Electric vehicles were tried and found wanting – more than a century ago.

“There is a long history of Musk messing up – and government covering up. To wit – Musk’s space exploration company SpaceX:

“‘In June 2015, SpaceX cost taxpayers $110 million when one of its Falcon 9 rockets exploded on a mission to resupply the International Space Station. The company received all but 20 percent of the payment it would have received for completing the mission successfully.

“‘Though two years have since passed, the cause of the rocket’s failure remains unclear.

“‘NASA assured the public that the agency would release a public summary of the results from its investigation by this summer. But just weeks ago, NASA announced that it will no longer to do so.

“‘”NASA is not required to complete a formal final report or public summary since it was an FAA licensed flight,” a spokesman claimed.’”

“Get that? NASA originally promised us a two-year assessment – that should have taken a month.

“And then waits out the two years – and declares they’ll never provide us the assessment.”